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I thought that this was not only the state motto, but the motto for Mecklenburg County. When I was doing my Senior Research paper last semester on Negro migration within the South (focusing on the Charlotte area) during the Second World War, I found this quote in the 1943 Hill’s City Directory:

“Charlotte’s labor is of the finest in the country today – native, white, sober, industrious. Labor troubles are practically unknown and the labor turnover is small”